VWR INTERNATIONAL, LLC ACQUIRES OMNILAB AG, SWITZERLAND

WEST CHESTER, PA, October 2, 2008 - VWR International, LLC, a leading global laboratory supply company, announced today that it has acquired OMNILAB AG, a Swiss scientific laboratory supply distributor headquartered in Mettmenstetten near Zurich. OMNILAB was founded in 1990 and is one of Switzerland's largest independent suppliers of laboratory equipment and consumables. OMNILAB is [...]

Roche Diagnostics Extends License for Universal ProbeLibrary (UPL) Kits from Exiqon A/S

Roche Diagnostics and Exiqon A/S, Vedbaek, Denmark, a provider of high-value gene expression analysis products, today announced the signing of an amendment to their 2005 license and distribution agreement for the Universal ProbeLibrary (UPL) that is based on Exiqon's proprietary Locked Nucleic Acid (LNA(TM)) Oligonucleotides. Under the terms of the agreement, Roche`s exclusive rights to [...]

SoluLinK Introduces New One-Shot ChromaLink(TM) Biotin Antibody Labeling Kit with Built-in Biotin

SAN DIEGO, Oct. 1 -- SoluLinK, Inc., a leader in conjugation products and complete easy to use kits, announces the introduction of its newest product, the One-Shot ChromaLink Antibody Labeling Kit. This innovative kit includes all the components for the rapid traceable biotinylation of a single antibody. The kit features SoluLinK's patented sulfo-ChromaLink Biotin linker, [...]

Transaction adds fundamental assay technology for high-resolution sequence detection and quantification of genetic variations

QIAGEN Acquires Biosystems Business from Biotage Venlo, The Netherland, October 1, 2008 - QIAGEN N.V. (NASDAQ: QGEN; Frankfurt, Prime Standard: QIA) today announced that it has acquired all assets related to the Biosystems business from Biotage AB, a publicly listed developer, manufacturer and distributor of products for genetic analysis and medicinal chemistry headquartered in Uppsala, [...]

Cepheid Receives FDA Clearance for First On-Demand Diagnostic Test for Life-Threatening MRSA and Staphylococcus aureus From Patient Positive Blood Cultures

One Hour Test is Cepheid's Second FDA Cleared Diagnostic Test in 2008; Test Improves Time-to-Result by More Than Twenty-Four Hours Over Conventional Methods SUNNYVALE, Calif., Oct. 1 -- Cepheid (Nasdaq: CPHD - News) today announced it has received clearance from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) to market its Xpert(TM) MRSA/SA Blood Culture (BC) [...]

U.S. Army Awards ICx Technologies a Contract for Future Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Reconnaissance System with an Estimated Value of Up to $711 Million

WASHINGTON--ICx Technologies (NASDAQ:ICXT - News), a developer of advanced sensor technologies for homeland security, force protection and commercial applications, announced today that it has been awarded a system-engineering, analysis and integration contract by the U.S. Army Research and Development Engineering Command Acquisition Center. The award, with an estimated value of up to $711 million over [...]

Agilent Technologies Creates Specialized Training Program in China for Melamine Analysis in Milk, Milk Products

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A - News) announced today it has created a specialized training program to address the current melamine crisis in China. The program will be available in early October and is part of Agilent University, a multifaceted education program for Agilent’s customers in China. The four-day training program will cover melamine-testing [...]

Affymetrix and Medical Prognosis Institute Collaborate to Develop Cancer Treatment Products

Affymetrix Inc. (Nasdaq:AFFX) and Medical Prognosis Institute A/S (MPI), a leading cancer diagnostic development company based in Denmark, today announced that they have signed a Powered by Affymetrix(TM) (PbA) agreement. With this agreement, MPI gains non-exclusive access to Affymetrix microarray technology to develop and commercialize drug sensitivity prediction and prognostic products for patients with cancer. [...]

454 Life Sciences Launches the GS FLX Titanium Series Reagents, Effectively Replacing Traditional Sanger Sequencing

454 Life Sciences Corporation, a Roche company, announced the launch of the new GS FLX Titanium series reagents and software that are transforming the life science's industry. The new reagent kits provide individual sequencing reads with an improved Q20 length of 400 base pairs (99% accuracy at the 400th base and higher for preceding bases) [...]

GenomeQuest Announces Integration of GenomeQuest™ 5.0 with Invitrogen’s Vector NTI Advance™ for Genomic Sequence Analysis

Leaders in sequence informatics and desktop sequence analysis join forces to provide users with enhanced, interoperable sequence search, analysis and data management capabilities WESTBOROUGH, Mass.--GenomeQuest and Invitrogen today announced that the GenomeQuest™ 5.0 web-based sequence search, analysis and data management platform is now interoperable with Invitrogen’s Vector NTI Advance™ desktop sequence analysis solution. Ronald Ranauro, [...]

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